Senior Data Scientist
London or Leicester (hybrid, 1 day per week onsite)
£60,000 to £75,000
This is an opportunity to join a pricing team building innovative models that shape how pricing decisions are made. You will work with complex and novel datasets, develop predictive models, and help advance a modern modelling framework that delivers real commercial impact.
The Company
They are a well-established organisation investing in data science and advanced analytics. The pricing team operates with agility and encourages curiosity, experimentation and rapid learning. With strong leadership backing and a growing modelling roadmap, they are looking to add experienced Senior Data Scientists to support their next phase of development.
The Role
• Develop, refresh and combine pricing and footprint models that support pricing decisions.
• Work with messy, complex datasets including geospatial and alternative data sources.
• Build predictive and residual models across major products, contributing to a wider model chain.
• Review and improve existing early-stage models, progressing them toward production readiness.
• Explore new ways to manage and integrate multiple models within a stack.
• Guide a junior Data Scientist and support their technical development.
• Communicate model outputs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Your Skills and Experience
• Strong experience working with large, messy and diverse datasets.
• Hands-on modelling experience using GLMs, XGBoost or similar predictive methods.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL, ideally within a cloud environment such as Azure.
• Experience combining or managing multiple models in a pipeline.
• Clear communication skills with the ability to explain insights effectively.
• A curious mindset and the ability to work at pace.
• Insurance experience is welcome but not essential.
What They Offer
• A salary between £60,000 and £75,000.
• Hybrid working with London or Leicester as a base.
• The chance to build impactful pricing and footprint models.
• Career development through ownership, visibility and coaching opportunities.